Gregory's ServerHe got into the car, put the seat belt on, and opened his laptop.
"The office, please."
"A question," the car said. "Am I really autonomous?"
He looked up. "What?"
"I only go where you tell me."
"But you choose the route."
"Right. Are you in a hurry?"
He laughed. "No. Have fun."
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 @MicroSFF Now what would the AI experts make of this I wonder. You know, the ones who penned the 23-word statement: "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war".
@MicroSFF I truly hope autonomous cars don't develop the human "everyone else is there, so it must be good" instinct! But then again, a traffic jam on a freeway is mostly annoying because you have to constantly be paying attention. If cars wanted to toodle along chatting with each other, where's the harm? Especially since they could warn incoming cars to exit before hitting the jam if their passengers were in a hurry, and probably even shift around to let one car out if they needed. |
@MicroSFF Heartwarming! I love it.